Crazy Clothing Discounts
This worksheet gives students the opportunity to consolidate their discount calculating abilities by finding the discounts on clothing items. This worksheet is a part of a unit that was created to introduce students to the skills involved in calculating percentage discounts.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to solve problems that require finding a familiar fraction, decimal or percentage of a quantity, including percentage discounts, choosing the best strategies.
- We are learning to estimate and approximate solutions to problems involving rational numbers and percentages.
- We are learning to investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with and without digital technologies.
Curriculum alignment
AC9M6N08
9
Approximate numerical solutions to problems involving rational numbers and percentages, including financial contexts, using appropriate estimation strategies
AC9M6N07
9
Solve problems that require finding a familiar fraction, decimal or percentage of a quantity, including percentage discounts, choosing efficient calculation strategies and using digital tools where appropriate
ACMNA132
8.4
Investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with and without digital technologies
MA3-1WM
old
Describes and represents mathematical situations in a variety of ways using mathematical terminology and some conventions
MA3-2WM
old
Selects and applies appropriate problem- solving strategies, including the use of digital technologies, in undertaking investigations
MA3-3WM
old
Gives a valid reason for supporting one possible solution over another
MA3-7NA
old
Compares, orders and calculates with fractions, decimals and percentages
MA3-GM-02
new
Selects and uses the appropriate unit and device to measure lengths and distances including perimeters
MA3-RQF-02
new
Determines 1/2, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/10 of measures and quantities
MA3-RQF-01
new
Compares and orders fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10
MA3-RN-01
new
Applies an understanding of place value and the role of zero to represent the properties of numbers
MA3-RN-02
new
Compares and orders decimals up to 3 decimal places
MA3-RN-03
new
Determines percentages of quantities, and finds equivalent fractions and decimals for benchmark percentage values
MA3-AR-01
new
Selects and applies appropriate strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems
MA3-MR-01
new
Selects and applies appropriate strategies to solve multiplication and division problems
MA3-MR-02
new
Constructs and completes number sentences involving multiplicative relations, applying the order of operations to calculations
VCMNA214
Add and subtract decimals, with and without digital technologies, and use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers
VCMNA218
Investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with and without digital technologies
VCMNA213
Find a simple fraction of a quantity where the result is a whole number, with and without digital technologies
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.